How To: Post to Blogger from Your Mobile Phone
January 12, 2009 - Reading time: 7 minutes
One really cool feature of Google Blogger is the ability to quickly create a post directly from your mobile phone. With Mobile Blogging, all you have to do is send a text message from your cell, and Blogger will automatically post the text (and photos!) that you send. Neat!
With mobile blogging, imagine the possibilities:
- Post photos from that amazing hiking or camping trip.
- Post updates from your intrepid trip across America on a Segway.
- Quickly publish breaking news from an event while in attendance.
- Post mood and gossip updates while in class (ugh, please don’t).
- Snap a photo of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, or a UFO before someone confiscates your phone. Read more
Weekend Fun – Play Tribes 2 Online For Free with TribesNEXT
January 10, 2009 - Reading time: 2 minutes
If you want to blow off a little steam this weekend, consider playing Tribes 2 for free. Sure, it’s an old game by today’s standards (released in 2001), but it’s still fun, especially if you are into first-person-shooter (FPS) games.
Tribes 2 was opened to the public for free download in May 2004. Back in November 2008, Vivendi shut down the authentication servers for a number of games (includes Tribes 2). Online play was no more. Read more
Set Windows as the Permanent Default OS when Dual-Booting with Ubuntu
January 9, 2009 - Reading time: 4 minutes
Ubuntu Linux is a great operating system, but one potential annoyance is how it automatically sets itself as the default OS when installed as a dual-boot with Windows. Fortunately, it’s easy to switch it back by editing GRUB (GRand Unified Boot Loader).
To modify GRUB, first boot into Ubuntu, then launch a Terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal). Type the following command:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
(Tip: if you don’t want to launch a full text editor, just substitute nano instead of gedit.)
Scan the file until you find this section: Read more
Turn Windows Server 2008 into an Excellent Workstation – Part II – Third Party Software
January 7, 2009 - Reading time: 10 minutes
Welcome to the second part of our series on turning Windows Server 2008 into an excellent workstation. If you missed it, please see Part I – The Basics as well as how to get Server 2008 for free (students only).
In this post we will take a look at some third-party software and its compatibility with Server 2008. In no way is this post comprehensive, but it should get you started in figuring out if your software is compatible. When possible, I tried to stick with free software.
This article is from an x86 (32-bit) perspective, though I doubt the x86-64 version differs much. Read more
Synchronize Your Ubuntu System Clock with Internet Time Servers
January 5, 2009 - Reading time: 3 minutes
Note: This guide was written for Ubuntu 8.10, but any GNOME-based Linux system should be similar.
If you want your Ubuntu system clock to stay in sync with Internet time servers, follow these simple instructions.
Step 1 – Open Time and Date
Go to the System menu -> Administration -> Time and Date.
New Year Resolution – Clean Up Your Gmail Account with Labels and Filters
January 2, 2009 - Reading time: 6 minutes
A new year is upon us, and once the hangover and the food coma have worn off, it’s time to start working on those resolutions for the fresh new year. Instead of the traditional desires to lose weight and stop smoking, I propose a more realistic and achievable goal – clean up your Gmail account.
Gmail makes it easy to keep your Inbox organized, but those tools are of no use unless you harness them. Perhaps you already know about these tools, so consider this post your wake-up call to start using them more effectively.
Labels
Labels are the equivalent to folders in other e-mail services, but they offer an additional benefit. You can apply multiple labels to a single conversation in Gmail.
To create new labels or edit your existing ones, click the Edit Labels link on the left. Read more
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